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Monsters, Legends, Folklore, Ghosts, Scary Stories and Myths in New York State

The ghosts of Sleepy Hollow (a real village popularly known by that name before it officially became so in 1996), where Washington Irving is buried and which really is haunted, especially around Raven Rock, by a wailing lady in white, the witch Mother Hulda and by a spectral horseman (not headless and usually heard but not seen); the Montauk monster, an unidentified carcass (but thought by some to be a bald raccoon); the Devil's Dance Chamber to the west of the Hudson River, where native Americans performed their divinatory dance rituals until the Manitou manifested himself as a wild animal; events in the Long Island house dramatised in the film The Amityville Horror (please do not linger as it is a private residence); the celebrity ghosts of New York City's Chelsea Hotel (itself immortalised in song by Leonard Cohen), which allegedly include Sid Vicious, Dylan Thomas, Thomas Wolfe and Eugene O'Neill; the skeletal Rambout Van Dam who rows the Tappan Zee; and alligators in the sewers of New York City, said to be the descendants of baby alligators flushed down toilets, are among the true ghost stories, myths and legends of New York State.

The witches of Native American legend who may still dwell in the glacial Green Lakes; the metal-working Catskill gnomes (originally of Mohican (Mahican) legend but possibly embellished since), pygmies with piggy eyes, long beards and enormous heads (melonheads?), whose games of nine-pins every twenty years cause thunder and flashes of light (September 3rd 2029 should be the date of their next tournament and, for the brave, the mountain behind the now demolished New Grand Hotel was said to be a good place to look but beware, Hendrik Hudson's crew were temporarily turned into gnomes after drinking their liquor and Rip van Winkle met the gnomes with famous results);Champ, the famous monster of Lake Champlain on the northeastern border of the state; the giant serpent of Silver Lake, near Gainesville; the ghost ship The Flying Dutchman, usually associated with the Cape of Good Hope but which is said by some to appear at Tappan Zee on the Hudson River (I suspect that it is really Captain Kidd's ship the Adventure Galley); the ghosts of the Dakota Apartments (used in exterior shots in Rosemary's Baby) in New York City, including an Edwardian little girl, a little boy dressed in clothes of the same period, a young man, a crying woman, Edward Clark (who had the Dakota built) and, it is said, former Beatle John Lennon; and the Catskill Witch who, according to Native American folklore, commanded the weather from Top Mountain and Round Top before playing tricks on anyone who ventured into her domain, once called Ontiora or Mountains of the Sky, are other legendary tales of ghosts and haunted places in New York State.

The finger marks of the Great Spirit, according to the Iroquois, as seen in the Finger Lakes to the west of Syracuse; the ghost ship Adventure Galley, commanded by Captain Kidd, seen near Bear Mountain Bridge; the pirate treasure, possibly Captain Kidd's, buried on New York harbour's Liberty Island but protected by a fire breathing devil; the Devil's Stepping Stones in Long Island Sound, used by Satan to escape from Native American warriors; the literary ghosts, including Dorothy Parker, of New York City's Algonquin Hotel; the Cardiff Giant, an allegedly petrified man now on display in the Farmer's Museum, Cooperstown; the dwerg (dwarf) of John Coleman, a seaman with Hendrik Hudson (did Coleman not recover from his encounter with the Catskill gnomes and so remained a dwarf?), who still haunts the area near Donderberg (Thunder Mountain) on the Hudson River; and the incredible twenty-two ghosts haunting the house at 14 West 10th Street in Manhattan, which include Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), are more weird folklore associated with New York State.

National Parks, State Parks, State Forests, National Forests, Nature Reserves and Refuges in New York State

Nelson Swamp Unique Area;Watkins Glen State Park, on Seneca Lake, with its cliffs and eighteen waterfalls; the wild Adirondack Park, inhabited by black bears and increasing numbers of moose and with its famous Great Camps, wilderness lodges of the wealthy;Niagara Falls State Park, the first state park in the USA; Sterling Forest State Park; Sapsucker Woods Sanctuary;Buttermilk Falls State Park near Ithaca; Labrador Hollow Unique Area; the Mohonk Preserve in the Shawangunk Mountains;Catskill Park with its forest inhabited by bears, bobcats and other animals as well as, perhaps, the Catskill gnomes;Letchworth State Park with its waterfalls and the Genesee River Gorge;Finger Lakes National Forest;Long Island National Wildlife Refuge Complex; Robert Moses State Park in the Thousand Islands area; Great Swamp Conservancy; Utica Marsh Wildlife Management Area;Allegany State Park near Salamanca, with black bears, beavers and more, often revealed in the evening by spotlights around Red House Lake; and Sam's Point Preserve, a National Natural Landmark and the habitat of bears and other wildlife, are among the national or state parks, forests and refuges of New York State.

The USA has always welcomed friendly travellers from all over the world. Be as familiar with famous places as you might like to be with famous people. Fort Lauderdale, Fairbanks, Washington DC, Sitka, Seattle, Skagway, New York, Honolulu, Salt Lake City, Minneapolis, Lake Tahoe, Savannah, Kansas City, Phoenix, Atlanta, Dallas, Albuquerque, Miami, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, Juneau, Anchorage, New Orleans, Corpus Christi, St Louis, Los Angeles, Santa Fe, Philadelphia, Houston, Indianapolis, Las Vegas, Sacramento, San Diego, Detroit and Atlantic City. If you have seen those cities, you have at least seen the most famous ones in the USA. Visiting all fifty states is something that even most Americans cannot manage but it is possible to visit those cities, as well as other iconic destinations such as Marvellous scenery and sea life in Kenai Fjords National Park, Native American nations such as the Navajo and the Hopi, Mount Rushmore, rodeos, the Arctic wilderness of Alaska, the California coastline, the beach at Waikiki in Hawaii, Niagara Falls, Yellowstone National Park, Hawaiian volcanoes such as Mauna Loa, Mount McKinley and fabulous wildlife in Denali National Park, the Disney resorts, the Everglades, Glacier Bay National Park, the Adirondacks, the plantations and bayous of the Mississippi Delta, the Ozarks, Route 66, Yosemite National Park, the Okefenokee Swamp, Bryce Canyon, Mount Rainier National Park, the Appalachians, the wild west town of Tombstone, the Florida Keys and the Grand Canyon. Casually mentioning places that you have visited can be as impressive as mentioning the names of celebrities that you have met.

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